How, when one is an archaeologist, can one understand the whole of a site which covers nearly 400 km²?… In this magnificent panorama of Central Africa, Geoffroy Heimlich and his team have decided to come out of their caves to try to understand how all this was organized, between the lithic sites, the metallurgical sites, the old villages and the initiation camps. The oral tradition speaking of mythical beings does not shed much light on knowledge… In order to identify purely archaeological sites, the solution came from the sky, thanks to the technique of photogrammetry which makes it possible to scan the landscape.
– © Geoffroy Heimlich
The exhibition “Lovo, in the footsteps of the Kingdom of Kongo” is presented to you at Les Eyzies Prehistory Interpretation Center until the end of the year.